A few years ago, a fellow psychologist told me that she didn’t understand alcoholics, she didn’t understand that self-disappointment in alcoholism, that contempt for life for a substance, unfortunately, this kind of?Professionals? They are common in the treatment of addictions. A sesained and moralistic perspective, unable to offer attractive and dynamic alternatives, that only aggravate […]
The word self-deception refers to phenomena related to lying to oneself. This is one of the great pitfalls of the mind. Self-deception occurs in situations where we convince ourselves of a reality that is false, but we do it unconsciously. The difference between lying and self-deception is that, by lying, the person is aware that
How can a person know and at the same time not know ?, How can we avoid perceiving things?Sometimes it seems that we have the ability to anesthetize certain aspects or situations of our lives so as not to suffer and move on. In theory, a person cannot lie to himself, but we only have
Have you ever stopped to think about self-deception?We all know, one way or another, lies, some are braver and admit that they are capable of lying, others do not admit this weakness. Who has never told himself a lie?Maybe you didn’t even realize you were lying?Can we think about that? “The most common lie is
